Spiritual aspects of homosexuality

About the source: Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Bhakti Tirtha Swami was born John E. Favors in a pious, God fearing family. As a child evangelist he appeared regularly on television. As a young man he was a leader in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights movement. At Princeton University he became president of the student council and also served as the chairman of the Third World Coalition. Although his main degree is in psychology, he has received accolades in many other fields, including politics, African studies, and international law.Bhakti Tirtha Swami directly oversees projects in the United States as a senior member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commision particularly Washington D.C., Potomac, Maryland, Detroit, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, West Africa, South Africa, Croatia and Bosnia. He also serves as the director of the American Federation of Vaisnava Colleges and Schools.A specialist in international relations and conflict resolution, Bhakti Tirtha Swami constantly travels around the world and has become a spiritual consultant to may high ranking members of the United Nations, to various celebrities and to Several chiefs, kings and high court justices. HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami left this world on June 27th, 2005. He was suffering from advanced melanoma cancer.

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From the spiritual perspective, another explanation for homosexuality or bisexuality lies in reincarnation.

Those who are not properly integrated in one life can find themselves in the next life with a male consciousness in a female body or vice versa. Such souls are stuck. The situation is not completely their doing because everyone has participated in creating the environment and culture that have allowed such circumstances to develop. In many cases if a person has demonstrated excessive masculine or feminine energy in one life or strong hatred for one sex or the other, these patterns will persist in the next life, even in the body of the opposite gender. This can encourage a homosexual lifestyle.

Remember this whole world is just a training ground or a school. A soul in a previous life may have been in a strong athletic 200 pound male weightlifter’s body, now the soul is reborn into a weaker women’s body. As a man perhaps this individual was extremely chauvinistic, insensitive and unwilling to develop his nurturing side. He must now take on a female identity in order to develop these aspects but his strong connection to his previous life means that he still expresses the powerful masculine energy so that now the person is lesbian in a state of bewilderment. This soul may have to reincarnate in the next life as a woman once again in order to integrate the denied feminine aspects.

As another example in previous life someone in a female body may have experienced extreme abuse. Now that same individual is born once again in a female body, this time filled with great self hatred and dislike of being female. In an effort to deny her hated femininity she creates an imbalance in her sexual orientation.

If we feel attraction towards members of our own sex, we are not alone. Great numbers of people have similar karmic factors to work out. There is nothing wrong with having affection for someone of the same gender. However, the difficulties arise when this affection seeks sexual expression. Sex life means that the partners are ready to care for one’s produced from their union. What naturally results from a sexual relationship is the birth of a child. Any other use of sexuality is unnatural and entails negative consequences.